Accident Quotes
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There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.
John Prine
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It wasn't a game. He wasn't trying to beat the train. It was an accident.
Samantha Smith
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All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.
Sidney Lumet
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I think it was more by accident rather than design there is such a strong connection between the show and the racing fraternity, but there's just so much talent here. And, hey, both the racing and theatrical communities are made up of real people with many interests and backgrounds.
Peter Hall
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I can think of maybe a couple of days before my accident or the day of my accident that I could have definitely done things slightly different.
Rick Allen Def Leppard
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Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
George Bernard Shaw
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And more importantly, I wouldnt be the person I am today, I wouldnt be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasnt for the accident.
Rick Allen Def Leppard
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I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue an accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and I have just been born today.
Hermann Hesse
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We do not suffer by accident.
Jane Austen
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True success is one of the greatest needs. Success is not something you stumble onto or come to by accident. It is something you must sincerely prepare for. Take a good look at successes, and you'll see he same consistent qualities all the time - qualities of one's character that make one strive for a goal with a standard of unmatched excellence.
Reggie Jackson
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Fate is a great accident.
Arvo Ylppo
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That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.
Seneca the Younger
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I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident.
Eileen Collins
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My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
Alan Rickman
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison
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I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that's not true: I went in in 1956, came out in 1959, was working at the University of Washington, and I came up with an idea, from reading a magazine article, for a new kind of a phonograph tone arm.
Elwood G. Norris
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The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to any minds but those abounding in knowledge and disciplined in intellectual combinations.
John Stuart Mill
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The talent is on the rise in the Valley. That's why Valley teams can play with anyone in the country. As a conference we've beaten some pretty big programs this season and it's no accident. And the talent is only going to get better now that recruits can see what we're all about. We can play any style of ball.
Tony Bennett
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None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
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Everybody knows that smiling is for little girls, the gays and certain kinds of fish who are smiling by accident.
Buddy Wakefield
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
Thomas Carlyle
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The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually through his own fault, as in a traffic accident. Certainly, there are unforeseeable things – maltreatments. However, I believe I have attained a certain degree of self-distancing that allows me to regard this as an accident.
Ernst Junger
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Their lead guitar sounded like what would happen if someone wedged a traffic accident into a blender.
Brenna Yovanoff
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We didn't have any simulators. We had to do it on the track all the time. Now they've got simulators for everything. And, if they have an accident or go off, then you just press a button, re-set, and away you go again.
Nigel Mansell